MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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“American interests are best served by strict isolationism.”
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“The Passage of protective tariffs will encourage industrial development.”
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“Immigration is the key to the nation’s economic growth.”
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The United States has a duty to spread American ideals westward
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which quotation best represents the idea of Manifest Destiny? “The United States has a duty to spread American ideals westward."
Detailed explanation-2: -O’Sullivan. He expanded the idea in the New York Morning News in December, invoking “the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us.”
Detailed explanation-3: -Which statement best describes the doctrine of manifest destiny? God expected white Americans to expand across the continent and spread democratic ideals.
Detailed explanation-4: -The philosophy describing the necessary expansion of the nation westward was called Manifest Destiny; the belief that it was our duty to settle the continent, conquer and prosper.
Detailed explanation-5: -Manifest Destiny was a popular belief in the mid-to-late 19th century. Its proponents claimed that the United States had the divine right to expand westward-meaning that U.S. expansion was the will of God.